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Judea Pearl, recently announced winner of the 2011 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award for Contributions that Transformed Artificial Intelligence, has been at the forefront of the...
Our colleague Marie C. recently traveled to London for the first time, and recounts highlights from her extended layover, Anthony-Bourdain style (but maybe more touristy than gritty).
In invalidating most of Arizona’s controversial immigration law, the Supreme Court has put the onus of immigration reform (or lack thereof) back where it belongs—with the U.S. Congress. The majority...
The notion that the popular press has a crucial role to play in modern democracies, and therefore must maintain its independence from government influence, is in the air these days
Deep Throat has hit middle age. The classic porn film starring Linda Lovelace turns 40 this summer, having enjoyed its premiere in New York City in June 1972. Rather than experiencing a midlife crisis, which might entail fading into obscure Hollywood history—a relic of a brief, bygone age when pornography reigned on the big screen—Deep Throat is hotter than ever.
As we write in the opening of Chapter 7, “London liked to portray itself as a loyal, royal city”; furthermore, when they were not opposing the Crown and its ministers, Londoners liked to turn out for...
It’s your last chance to show us what the Swinging City looks like to your London Eye. Submit your photo and tell us why you love it before it’s too late to win an advance copy of London: A...
In June 1871 Henrietta met Richard Buckley Litchfield, a barrister and lecturer in music at the London Working Men’s College; they were married in the parish church in her parents’ village of Downe,...
Visitors to London today are often struck by the relative approachability of the offices of central government. Although the security concerns of recent years have certainly spawned an elaborate network...
If you’d like to visit the front lines of climate change, you need not travel as far as the North Pole, the nearest melting glacier, or the most recently inundated island. Easier to access by road...
The bicentennial of the War of 1812 is now upon us. It might be supposed, after the passage of two centuries, that all the emotions surrounding the conflict have subsided and that American, British, and...
A small lockable leather diary in the archive at Cambridge University Library has led to a reassessment of one of the key relationships in Charles Darwin’s life. The Darwin Correspondence Project, with the permission of Darwin’s family, is making public for the first time the short but intense—and intensely revealing—personal journal of Darwin’s daughter, Henrietta.
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